Transcript Getting What You Want

Getting What
You Want
Too Good for Drugs and Violence
Lesson 5
What is
Communication?
Communication
•The act or process of using
words, sounds, signs, or
behaviors to express or
exchange information or to
express your ideas, thoughts,
feelings to someone else.
• With a partner, list all the ways people communicate.
Speak
Text
Skype/FT
Write
Newspaper
Music
Smoke
Social Media
Pointing
Email
Internet/Blogs
Facial Expressions
Mail
Body Language
News/TV
Phones
Sign Language
Airplane/Billboards
Radio
Websites
Apps
Communication Activity 1
Speaker
Cannot use hands or body parts.
Can only speak/ cannot answer questions.
Drawers
Cannot ask questions.
Must actively listen.
Draw what you are told to draw/what you hear.
• Focus on what the person is really
saying.
• Observe body language.
• Listen to the tone of voice
• Paraphrase to show understanding.
• Ask questions to clarify.
Use Active Listening
Activity 2
Speaker
Can use hands or body parts.
Can speak and can answer questions.
Drawers
Can ask questions.
Must actively listen.
Draw what you are told to draw/what you hear.
How Do They Relate?
•Communication
•Getting What You
Want?
• Polite
• Used to avoid making anyone angry
• Don’t want to hurt feelings
• Avoid Arguments
• Put other’s wishes ahead of their own.
• Often get hurt themselves.
• It’s my way or the highway!
• Do not respect the feelings of others.
• Are often hurtful.
• Use name calling and ridicule.
• Always put others down.
• Open, Honest and Direct
• Stand up for themselves and what they feel.
• Respect themselves and others.
Why?
Why is this a focus
in the Too Good For
Drugs & Violence
Unit?
Getting What You Want!
• Saying No!
• Setting Goals
• Unhealthy Relationships
• Peer Pressure
• Interviews